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Friday, January 18, 2013

Grow Your Blog Party

Welcome Grow Your Blog Party goers!

My name is Sherrie, and they call me the Bird Lady. Bird Lady Blog is about my birding adventures here in eastern Washington (US). I have blended my favorite hobbies together, bird-watching, photography, and computers. I love sharing my love of bird watching, wildlife and nature with you!I was excited when I stumbled upon the Grow Your Blog idea while reading a fellow bird bloggers post, but disappointed that the deadline had already passed a couple of days before. By chance, I asked to still be included and Vicki, over at 2 Bags Full, was kind enough to let me join in on the fun. I am looking forward to meeting other bloggers and readers and expand my reading list of interesting blogs.

Recently, Bird Lady Blog has had a bit of a makeover, with several new features added and a new scrolling banner at the top and bottom, as well as a new Photo Gallerypage. It's a great way to check out some of the older posts. Another neat way to explore Bird Lady Blog is Blogger's new Snapshot View orMagazine View. There are several other views available that you can choose. There is no sidebar available when in these special views, so to get back to the normal view, just click on "Bird Lady Blog" at the top of the page. I noticed that these 'views' don't work on my iPhone's mobile browser.If you are on Pinterest, there is now a "Pin It" button on the sidebar at the right, that pins a link to Bird Lady Blog on your Pinterest. I'm planning on adding a button to future posts so that you can easily pin a post you are interested in also. Bird Lady Blog is also on Facebook. So be sure to stop by and 'like' the new page. There you will find links to all the posts here on the blog.

I have been gearing up for a Big Year birding project for 2013. My goal this year is to see as many bird species as possible, and to visit as many of the Great Washington State Birding Trails as I can. I've been tracking my bird sightings daily with my iPhone app BirdLog, which submits my sightings to eBird. My sightings show up here on the blog in the sidebar to the right under the BirdTrax gadget.

Red-breasted Nuthatch, a daily visitor at my suet feeders

I hope that you enjoy reading about my birding adventures, and hope that you will continue to follow as I blog about my 2013 Big Year. I'm always interested in meeting other bird minded folks, or those that just enjoy nature, photography and blogging.Thanks for stopping by!~ Sherrie {Bird Lady}

i'm a new follower of your blog. glad to be finding all the great blog - i so love birds. check back with you again real soon. have a great weekend. sure hope you will pop over to see my blog too. take care. ( :

I've just enjoyed looking around your blog and am envious that you have loads of bird trails to go on! There aren't that many good birding places round where I live. I am glad you are talking about the photography side as well because I am learning too, and bird photography is so hard!!! :-)

I just recently discovered the bird trails. So far I have not seen many birds on the ones I have visited, but did get lucky a year or two ago to see Great Horned Owls nesting at a wildlife refuge that is known for it's birding and is on the trail list.

Love your French blog. I've always been interested in all things French, even gave my son a French name... Beau. LOL.

Thank you for checking out Bird Lady Blog. I do sit and watch the birds all day long on most days! Especially with it being too cold to go anywhere, watching the yard birds is entertaining to say the least.

Hey Susan, I found out that the Selkirk Loop contains about 40 birding trails in Southeast BC, northeast Washington and Northern Idaho. Many of the sites on the map are also on my Washington State Birding Trail Map and the one I have bookmarked in Idaho. I'm not too far from the stateline. Hopefully, you can visit some of the Canadian ones! Keep me posted. I'm waiting on better weather to start trekking around the trails. Wish it would hurry up and get here!

My hubby and I have a great time watching the birds at our feeders. We know the regulars now, and get excited when we see a bird we don't recognize. Been on bird trails, but almost never see a bird! lol! Glad to meet you!hugs,Terriartfulaffirmations.blogspot.com

Hi Terri. You know I haven't seen that many birds on the trails I've visited either. But I'm hoping for better luck. At least they are a destination, and hopefully we will find birds along the way! My yard birds are some of my best birds, and I'm lucky to have so many living here at the lake and in the woods.

Hello Wilma. Another reader from BC I was just finding some birding trails for in BC, called the Selkirk Loop, and they also include northeast Washington and Northern Idaho and many are the same ones I will be visiting this year.

Hi. My grandmother was a huge bird lover and it sort of rubbed off on me. My favorite bird is the nuthatch but unfortunately, where I live in Texas is a bit bird challenged (although I do occasionally see a Roadrunner which is something that I wouldn't have seen in WI).

I have 1 white-breasted nuthatch that I call Mr. White, he is always the only white one. The red's however, I have seen up to 4 at one time at the feeders. So cute when they bring the whole family when they have young-ins. They all hang together in a feeding flock with a downy woodpecker and a couple of chickadees.

I too enjoy birds and am facinated them since childhood. I am a new blog followe. I am glad I found your blog and wish I had found the grow your blog sooner so i could sign up. My yard has a couple of intresting birds I posted a few days ago. A roadrunner and some Gambels quail to start.dawn

Thanks for stopping by my blog. I love birds as well but know zip about them. We have Mockinbirds down here and all I know about them is they are mean....lol...Glad to see you are into photography as well. I'll be checking your blog often.

If you want some inspiration and tips on using your camera go here http://thepioneerwoman.com/photography/ This is where the madness started for me. I saw Ree's pics and thought "I can do that".

Hi Sherrie! Thanks for stopping by my blog! I love birds too and we do see quite a few at our home. With the woods behind us we also have owls and hawks as well as the traditional cardinal that is our state bird. Have a great week and enjoy this party!

Hi Sherrie, stopping over from the Blog Party, what a lovely place you've created. I am a complete photography addict but have never managed to get really good bird pics apart from gulls, swans and owls when they're sitting on someone's wrist!

Hi Sherrie, I just popped over from Grow Your Blog party and fell in love with all the beautiful bird photos. I love birds but don't have out bird feeders currently because of our resident black bear - we live in the highlands of the Mondanock region of New Hampshire. I've been working on ideas to get bird feeders out and close enough to view the birds yet far enough from the house for those bear visits... Anyway, I am your newest follower and look forward to future visits.Hugs,Beth P

Hey Sherrie, :D I should have expected the Bird Lady to catch that! :D I have an attached porch on the side of my house that basically is 4 sets of double sliding glass doors - not my desgign. When we first moved in I was horrified at how many poor birds were crashing into the glass doors. So I found a hawk image and made 3 for each unscreened side of the 4 sets of doors and glued them to the glass hoping to deter them from hitting the glass. I can't tell you how many birds I went flying through my house to rescue when I would hear them hit the glass... it got to be a sound my ears became finely tuned to! Sadly there were several that died right away! I did save quite a few too! That is another reason I stopped feeding them so they wouldn't have to negotiate the porch glass! I refuse to wash the glass windows so they are dirty... better my view is a little hindered by some dirt than another poor bird dies unnecessarily!Hugs,Beth P

Sherrie, I just read this post and saw you are doing a big year in your state. It sure sounds like fun. Did you see the movie called the "Big Year" I loved it! Washington State has some great birds, I have been there a few times visiting my SIL in Bainbridge Island. I found a few places in Leavenworth after looking at the birding trail, was great for seeing birds. Good Luck on your birding year, happy birding. I will be following your adventures.

Hi Eileen. I have been wanting to see the movie The Big Year, but haven't been able to find it in stores. Guess I'm gonna have to order it online.

We used to live just over the bridge from Bainbridge Island! In Poulsbo (actually closer to Suquamish). Great area! And we just visited Leavenworth at the end of October. I love that place. I wanted to do more birding around there, but it was a rainy weekend so didn't get to go on all the trails around there. Would love to go during the Birding Festival weekend!

I just got done looking at all the blogs you follow... WOW! You follow lots of birding blogs that I will be investigating! Fun, fun, fun!

Hi Sherrie,I'm visiting from the GYB party and have had such a lovely time here. I adore birds and photography so you have both covered. Your photos are stunning. I need to spend more time visiting and checking back through your posts...I know I'm going to have a great time. I'm your newest follower but I don't think I'll be your last. ;DHave fun blog hopping and hopefully you'll land on my patch...I'd love to see you over there, plus I've a 'giveaway' too. Neesie ♥

Hi Sherrie - thanks for visiting Comptonia earlier! Please let me know how to reach you so I can include you in the drawing :)Good gracious, you have some amazing photographs! I love the little nuthatch, staring down your camera ;)I'm no wildlife photographer, but one of the things I'm thinking about doing on my blog is writing individual posts about the plants and birds I see here at home. I think I'll start with plants, because they hold still longer for photos!

Hi Sherrie! Wow, I LOVE birds, and used to love feeding them every evening, before having to move to a new home (apartment house I was living in was sold, and I had to move)... Now I live more in the city, and have no more of my fine little feathered friends visiting me like they used to. I MISS THAT SO MUCH!... Anyways, now I'm wondering if YOU do any scrapbooking to keep a story going, with all your photos, about all the bird sitings you encounter??? I think you SHOULD! (0; Nice meeting you via Grow Your Blog! ~tina (aka, "beansie")

I swear I have replied to this twice already, but don't know where they went??? Bizarre.

I do have a few pages of my bird photos scrapbooked in an album. But I haven't journaled in them. I have tons of nature themed supplies to do more, and my photos have improved somewhat since way back then when I did these. I have some pics of them on my old myspace in a slide show, perhaps I will share on my blog one day soon.

Hi Sherrie!I enjoy reading your blog too. Birds are wonderful, we have blue Herons here in Northeast Ohio too. LOVE those pteradactles!lol I am joining you because one I love your Blog and two, Washington Girl, you share the same last name as before I was married! hee hee Dianna (Ohio girl)

Hi Sherrie, here in WV we have lots of birds, most I have no idea what they are called but my husband fills the feeders every other day. You have an interesting blog and I would be interested in seeing more so count me a new follower! Great photography by the way! Thank you for stopping by http://www.intheboondocks.blogspot.com and pointing me in your direction!

Nice to meet you Lisa! I liked the name of your blog "In the Boondocks", cause that's how I think of where we live, at least in the winter time. My bird friends keep me company during these long cold winters, but it's always nice to meet new friends online! I'd love to try to I.D. your WV birds!

About Me

People call me the Bird Lady because I am fascinated with birds! I love to watch birds, attract birds to my yard, take photos of birds, identify new birds to add to my life list and just enjoy all aspects of bird life in my surroundings.
I have been a bird lover for over 20 years now. Bought my first bird identification book back in 1991 in a sweet little bookstore in the quaint town of Leavenworth, here in Washington.